Jul
31
Are you rewarding your employee’s bad behaviour?
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Yesterday afternoon I was at my desk lost in thoughts when the shrill cry of a child broke into my reverie. One of the little girls who lives in the house next door was having an almighty tantrum. The real screaming stamping the feet type. Mum stayed back, let her carry on, ignoring her. Eventually […]
Jul
30
Benefits of managers spending their time with their employees
Filed Under Leadership, Active listening, employee relations, management | 1 Comment
“Employees leave bad managers not bad organisations”
Whether you agree or not I was introduced to the work of Professor Kim Cameron from the Department of Positive Organizational Scholarship at the University of Michigan and wanted to share it with you.
Prof Cameron has devised something called the Personal Management Interview Programme. She believes that employee engagement […]
Jul
9
What should you do when you start a new job?
Filed Under Job search, Personal awareness, management | 2 Comments
Good employers will have an induction plan in place for all new employees which will include basic things like pointing out the bathrooms and fire exits ( both crucial) to introducing you to your team to sharing history of the organisation to training in IT processes etc etc etc. This plan may take a week […]
Jun
30
Gen Y - and management
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After working with the young people on the recent Space Unlimited project amongst the comments which have been made about their approach, findings and report was that their experience will stand them in good stead for understanding what management means - which in turn means that they should demand -and contribute to - good management […]